Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what’s going on inside of us. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
Although we often discussed the idea of research on the nature of antigen recognition by T cells in the laboratory in the late Seventies while I was still in Basel, the real work did not start until the early Eighties in my new laboratory at M.I.T. Susumu Tonegawa Read Quote
